Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud

Dr. Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud is a sitting judge of the Bombay High Court and an eminent jurist in India.^[1][2][3]

Introduction

Dr. Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud is the son of Justice Y. V. Chandrachud, the longest serving Chief Justice of India. Born on 11 November 1959, he graduated from St. Stephen's College, New Delhi in 1979. He obtained his LL.B. degree from Delhi University in 1982 and a LL.M. degree from Harvard University in 1983. He also did his Doctorate of Juridical Sciences (S.J.D.), from Harvard University in 1986.^[1]

Career

• He started his career as an Advocate in the Delhi High Court.
• Appointed as Additional Solicitor General of India (1998–2000).
• Designated a Senior Advocate in 1998.
• Appointed as Judge of the High Court at Bombay on 29 March 2000 (He was aged 40 at that time]

He is also the Director of the Maharashtra Judicial Academy and Indian Mediation Training Institute.

Some of his landmark judgements are in the areas of constitutional law and the protection of human rights.

Personal life

He currently lives in Mumbai with his wife, Kalpana Das. He has two sons Abhinav and Chintan.

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See also

• Millennium laws For India Inc.---A symposium
• M E D I A T I O N – realizing the potential and designing. implementation strategies.
• First South Asian Regional Judicial Colloquium on Access to Justice
• CHRI: Judicial Colloquia Series on Access to Justice
• Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Pacific—A judicial colloquium and workshop